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Child-Parent Familial Hypercholesterolemia Screening in Primary Care.
The New England journal of medicine - 27 Oct 2016
Wald David S, Bestwick Jonathan P, Morris Joan K, Whyte Ken, Jenkins Lucy, Wald Nicholas J
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Child-parent screening for familial hypercholesterolemia has been proposed to identify persons at high risk for inherited premature cardiovascular disease. We assessed the efficacy and feasibility of such screening in primary care practice. METHODS: We obtained capillary blood samples to measure cholesterol levels and to test for familial hypercholesterolemia mutations in 10,095 children 1 to 2 years...
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